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T I THi: JOURNAL. FLIiLIPIIKft EVERY THURSDAY. PLATTS MOUTH, - NEBRASKA. OVEB THE STATE. to Fhkmont Salvationists are going erect a permanent barrack?. Tur. railroads will make a one-fare rate for the Omaha .lane race. Tiik Stanton school board has em ployed all of last year's teachers. Tiik question of voting bonds for a li w court house for Sarpy county i being agitated. Tiik teachers institute for Cheyenne county will lie held at Sidney July 0 to 1. inclusive. Tin. kxiurd of education of Nebraska City lust week elected teachers for the ensuing year. making but few changes. TiiMtk was a great deluge at liar 1 1 1 l' ton :md vicinity. sidewalks. Iii.lges, small outhouses, etc.. were set a Coat. Ana Imki.uk k, IK years ohi. jumped from a moving train on the I'nion Pacific and fell upon her head, sustain ing' severe injuries. Hi ll settlers of Otoe county will hold their picnic June 1 Ith. Governor llol eomb and other distinguished Nebras kans will be present. Nkw Yoi:k capitalists are looking over the property of the Peatrice Papid Transit and Tower company with a view to lease or purchase. A r this writing the body of young1 Kovrler, drowned at Ashland, has not Wen recovered, although the body has been in the water three days. I 'our No. 10. (irand Army of the Re public, llavid City, has secured De partment Commander Culver to deliver the Memorial address May 3a Aiui tan r-tlKNKHAi. I! a KKV sent out ion rounds of blank cartridges to each company of the national guards for use on Memorial day for firing salutes. In the district court of Ilyannis coun ty. Klmer Hardy, charged with shoot ing with intent to murder a brakeman on the It .V -M-, was tried and acquit ted. Mil V.iiNKK, a farmer living five miles northwest of Columbus, sold tome hogs to Wiggins X Lewis and one of the porkers tipped the beam at 740 pounds. A r Omaha one Claycomb was found guilty of grave robbing. He stole two bodies from Mt Hope cemetery, ship ping them to the medical college at I es Moines. Makiin IIooiik, a 16-year-old Omaha toy. was drowned while bathing in a pond near the city. His brothers were with him. but were unable to render timely assistance. Mikk Lamiiion was run over by the Union Pacific freight at Platte Center und when found was in a mangled con dition. Ioctors amputated both leg's and he died in a short time. A Tari.k Rock dispatch says the seventeen-year locusts are hatching out in great numbers. They were present last in 187U. They have the proverbial letter W" on their backs, which is said to stand for war. The 6-year-old son of George Shaffer, living four miles north of Odell, was playing in a hay loft and in some way fell backward, striking his head against a sharp nail, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. Dot fti-As county commissioners are talking of providing a cinder path for bicycles from the city to Florence, six miles distant. The only thing that stands in the way is the reduced condi tion of the county treasury. Mr. a.t Mrs. Har.net Lewis of Mc Cook last week buried their little son. Edward, making the fifth child they have lost from whooping cough. Their only remaining child, a bright, pretty little girl, is very low with the same strangely fatal malady. SiiEKirr EmvAKi of Dodge county went to Scribner and arrested Carl Hehrendt on a complaint charging him with committing an assault and threat ening to kill his brother. Fred leh rentlt, using a knife for the purpose. The beet sugar company of York has filed articles of incorporation with Sec retary of State Piper. The authorized capital stock is S5.0(o and the object of forming a corporation is the propaga tion of sugar beets. A. C. Montgomery and nineteen others are the incorpora tors. The people ot lilger and surround ing country gave the Methodist minister of that place a generous pounding. Well filed baskets came from many quarters and after they were deposited at the parsonage, all repaired to the church, where a social evening was en joyed. John C Petekj-ox. a prominent Swede farmer, living six miles east of Minden. when returning home about II o'clock at night, lost control of his team. They ran across a ditch, throw ing him out and the wagon box on top of him. breaking bis ribs and driving them into his lungs. His recovery is donbtfaL A sleeping room occupied by five young men was entered at Wausa. A sack containing $40 was stolen from under the pillow of Nels Linquest. One of the young men sleeping in the room was disturbed by a slight noise made by the intruder and so caught a glimpse of the man. The marshal has a young man of the town under arrest on sus picion. Several days ago Chief Faunce of Nebraska City received a telegram from the sheriff of Lancaster county, telling him to keep a lookout for a man, wo man and a 3 year-old child named Sut ton, stating that the man was wanted for horse stealing. Next day the chief spied a couple answering the above de scription and immediately placed them under arrest. Mrs. P. Gleich of Hall county, the lady who was dragged about a mile in a runaway last winter, has so far re covered as to be able to leave the hos pital and is at present stopping at the residence of friends in Grand Island. The recovery is a most remarkable one, as she was most severely injured. The (. A. R- reunion for Cass, Lan caster. Otoe. Sarpy and Saunders coun ties, will be held this year at Weeping W ater. July 1-4. inclusive. The great success attending the one held there two years am. promises to be eclipsed by the present one. Everything will be done for the comfort of the guests and their friends. Anil kn Is w ithout a saloon, notwith standing the late election went favor able thereto. GkokoK Nklkon, the Sheridan county convict, who was given his liberty by the supreme court, because of irregu larity in his trial, is out of the peniten tiary, and will not be molested further. His freedom is largely due to the devo tion ot his sister Kosa, now of Omaha, who was on hand to welcome him back to the world. Sri'KKiNTKNUK.vr Ahhoit. with the assistance of Prof. W. A. Jones, the orchestra and band from the institute of the blind, provided a most enjoyable afternoon and evening for the inmates of the insane asylum at Lincoln. A large number of invited guests were present to enjoy the entertainment with the inmates. Dan IIakky, who was shot while trying to enter the store of Willits & Co. at Alma died from his wound. Coroner Rush impanelled a jury which found that Hardy died from the effects of a gunshot wound received at the hands of Ralph Mock while he was try ing to gain an entrance in the store of Willits & Co., and that said 6hooting was justifiable. C. R. M Lean, of Juniata, perfected a string of nine knites, two large box pattern and several of the Eddy style, that he sent into the sky some 2,000 feet, and to them he attached two Hags, one MxS feet in size, the other, 1x0. The larger kite went up over l.ooo feet, and thus Old Glory got an altitudinous airing not often accorded to the stars and stripes. A Washington dispatch says that Representative llainer has presented a bill in the house for the purpose of confirming the title of the old settlers on the Otoe and Missouri Indian lands and securing the payment to the Ind ians on the appraised value basis. The secretary of the interior is authorized and directed to revise and adjust on principles of equity the sales of the lands sold at I Sea trice in 16H3. Two trr.mps at Plattsmouth picked up a grip which belonged to a travel ing man which was standing in fiont of the Riley hotel. The theft was not discovered for some time, when it was reported to the police, who soon suc ceeded in locating the men, and cap turing them, after a hot chase. When arraigned in police court they pre tended to be very drunk and were given time to sober up before giving an account of their shortcomings. Tiik tow n and neighborhood of Peru is very much excited over the disap pearance of one I laden Roberts, a farm er near there. He left home Friday night between 12 and 2 o'clock, taking only two revolvers. He was in Peru the day before and paid up his life in surance. Some notes were found after his departure, saying he had left the country forever. But parties who claim to know say they are not in his writing. Foul play or suicide is feared. Governor Hoi.co.mb has received two World's fair medals and diplomas. These were issued to the state of Ne braska, one for the collection of grapes and the other for exhibition in the tree section, display of forestry re sources of the state and statistics and photographs relating to the exhibit The medals are for the present in the possession of the governor, and will be finally disposed of by being turned over either to the historical or some of the other state societies to which they belong. Deputy United States Marshal Hub bard and Revenue Collector Parker were in Syracuse the other day, having with them two complete whisky stills, one of which was found on the farm of George Koos, ten miles west of Dunbar, and the other on the farm of Mr. Wil helm, about eight miles south. One still was six or seven feet below the surface of the ground. The marshal says the stills are worth several hun dred dollars and are the most complete outfits ever found in that part of the country. Chas. J. Johnson, a patient at the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane, died the other day from the effects of a blow administered by P. 1. Davis, another patient. There had been some hard feelings between the men for some time, although neither was considered Tiolenu Suddenly, as they were going up stairs, Davis seized a small box and struck Johnson a heavy blow on the head, which caused a fracture of the skull. Johnson never recovered con sciousness. He is from Saunders coun ty and has a family. Davis is a patient from Douglas county. l'At'i. Mraz, a prominent Bohemian farmer, residing on his farm situated live miles southeast of Linwood, com mitted suicide. After performing his usual work Mraz wandered away from the house and was found two hours later by his wife, hanging from the limb of a tree about a quarter of a mile away. He had ascended the tree to a height of twenty feet and fastened the rope around his neck and threw him self off. His neck was not broken and death resulted from strangulation. He had lost two wives and four children w ithin the last two years and this it is thought tended to self destruction. State Superintendent II. R. Corbett has issued his annual report in the form of advance sheets of his biennial report for 18'.5-6. The report shows that the total resources of districts at the end of the last year amounted to -i.-.41.-.'31: indebtedness, S3.2C2.229; value of district property, fS.889,841. the number of teachers necessary was s..01; number employed, 2,548 males, .i43 females; total 9.491. The total wages earned was: Males, $778,885; fe males, J2.742.894. The average month ly wages was: Males, $44.18; females, f3S. ; total 840.21. There were 9,693 districts having a total of 6,687 school houses. Children between five and twenty-one years numbered 351,845 and the total enrollment was 274,882. with an average daily attendance of 171,859. There were 212 private schools report ed. The cost of education on enroll ment was 913.74 and on average daily attendance S2L91. The impression prevails in some sec tions of the state that only members of the Nebraska Club may enter the "Vol unteer Home Newspaper Correspond ents' Bureau" of the Club. The Exec utive Committee desires to corect this. Any one of good standing who can and will secure regularly the publication of one letter per month in one or more Eastern papers of any city, town or village, also send marked copies of the same to the Secretary and will so write the Secretary naming the papers and where published, will be enrolled as a member of the Bureau. No cost at taches to this and outline letters are furnished on request to the Secretary. SITUATION AT ST. LOUIS. NO MATERIAL CHANGE IN THE CON DITION OF AFFAIRS. THE DEAD AND INJURED. A Loot 400 Killed and 3,6H Injured Hundred Herlooaly Mir liatrea In Kul St. Loala Keller la finally Needed I'roperty Lou la Ball routed at 2S.OOO.OOO. St. Lor is, Mo., June 1 . The situa tion in St. Louis, as viewed from the Republic's standpoint, is as follows: St. Louis Identified dead, 136; un known dead, 18; missing, 33; fatally injured, 19; seriously injured in hos pitals, 401; estimated injured outide of hospitals, 1;(XK; property loss, esti mated, $L'0,000,000. East St. Louis Identified dead, 1 10; unknown dead, 6; dying, ; missing, 10; seriously injured in hospitals, 200; estimated injured outside of hospitals, 2,000; property loss, estimated, $5,000, 000. It is believed that the deaths of the injured and the future recovery of bodies will bring the St. Louis death list well up to 200. In East St. Louis the city officials declare 1 that they have hope that the death roll on that side of the river will not exceed 150, but the ruins upon which the. rescuers have not yet begun work may swell the total far beyond that figure. The building contractors of that city have been overwhelmed with or ders for rebuilding, and the work of wiping out the havoc o the storm is proceeding with much energy. The Commercial Exchange an nounced last night that the audi torium to be used for the Republican national convention has been repaired and now shows not the slightest effect of the storm. Although thousands of men have been at work night and day clearing away the wreckage in the path of the tornado, they have scarcely made a perceptible impression toward restor ing the chaotic confusion to anything like order. Passageways have been made through some of the principal thoroughfares, it is true, but for the most part the streets are still choked with the battered remains of homes and factories, hospitals and churches. The path of the storm is fully a mile and a half wide. It starts away out in the suburbs of the city, where beautiful homes are located. Taking a zig-zag course, it extends down Mirough where the densely populated tenement houses are located, fully six miles, and crosses the river. At the extreme limits of the city to the west is a quarter known as Tower Grove park. It is populated by peo ple of wealth, and the houses are palatial, with beautiful grounds, etc. To the southeast of this is another region of wealth. The storm moved its way through them both. Magnifi cent residences in both places were wiped off the face of the earth in some cases, while in others roofs were carried away, trees torn from their roots and all the picturesque beauty destroyed. The number of families left home less by the devastation along the path of the storm will reach up into the thousands. In many instances these unfortunates have lost all their worldly oossessions. Many will- for days be dependent on charity ami their more fortunate neighbors for shelter. There is a probability that one man, whose horribly mangled holy was taken to the morgue, was not killed by the storm. A gentleman who was in the neighborhood of the I'nion tiepot powerhouse just after the storm asserts that some of the crowd there assaulted a ghoul caught tnieving and beat him to death. His story is that while viewing the wreck he saw half a dozen men jump on a man who had been loafing about in the crowd. Some one hit the man with a club, Telling him to the ground. Then the crowd jumped on the mn and kicked him until he was unconscious. Some one cried "lynch the thief." Then the crowd picked up his limp form and carried it to Russell avenue, where thev put it in a dirt wagon an:l carted it off. The Business Men's league issued the following announcement last nght: "The league indorses the action of Mavor Wal bridge in declining outside ; i l. It feels grateful for the many t-v'fiences of generosity in these help offerings., but. having made careful investigation of the storm stricken d.strict. whieh, tlx-iih extensive, is almost entirely confined -O I he section of the city outside of-the pr.nc p.ii Jmsiness area, it is its deliberate judgment that the city will be amply uh e to fullv provide for all the needs f the attl'eted. Ftom far off London Sir Henry Irv ing. Oiga Ne'hersole and Wilson Bar- havecable I money, sympathy and ofi s of lenefit perlormances if n- del. Others are as ir-neruu.s, and ro doubt thousands of dollars could be raised in a few days if it were necessary. Fast St. Lo a la Two companies of the Illinois state miiitia from Greenville and Belle ville. ID., in all about 100 men, pa trolled the levee district of East St. Louis all day. Dead lines were es tablished, and no one was allowed to pass without a permit. Ihe effect of these stringent meas ures was soon seen in the greatly de creased number of people in the de vastated district. Over sixty suspects have already been arrested and were sent out of town or locked n p. Sev eral pickpockets and confidence men have also been arrested. In addition to the militia and police force, Chief of Police Ganey swore in fifty depu ties who were placed in different parts of the city. The propertv loss is hard to estimate, but 82. 0 '0,000 to SS.f'iKl.OOO are conservative figures. Late iigures rather tend to reduce the estimates of the numlter killed, and the probabilities are that it will not run much over 150. The feature of the storm was the large number of horses killed. On all sides could be seen the mangled bod ies of these animals. The police de partment was busy all day removing the carcasses, and none too hood, for the warm weather of the past two days had already started decomposi tion. The railroad yards are generally being cleared of debris, rendering the moving of trains once more possible, but it will be weeks before anything like order can be restored. At least 400 freight ears were overturned and either wholly or partially demolished, and as many of these were loaded with merchandise the work of clear ing the tracks will necessarily be very slow. A Ladies' relief corps has been or ganized, of which Miss Louisa Gross of East St. Louis is president, and Mrs. Ira Sweet of East St. Louis is vice president. Coinmitteeshave been appointed from all churches of the city and are actively at work soliciting aid and are meeting with good suc cess. The new library building has len made the general relief head quarters. Tickets will be distributed to the needy ones for food, clothing and shelter. Mayor Itader estimates that at least 500 families are left des titute and will need immediate assist ance. Many have not even sufficient clothing. DAMAGE ABOUT MKXICU. CONGRESS IS HEP.iO'e. The Destruction of Life and Property Leaa Than Was Reported. Mexico. Mo., June 1. The result summed up in this county is as fol lows: Six dead Riley 1 lagan of near Kushville, a 7-year-old girl of J. G. Ware, a 7-3'ear-old daughter of August Blaze, Eulah Miller, Rose Hodge and a t-year-old son of Albert Knoble. At Vandalia the residences of the fol lowing oeople vere severely damaged, but no one was killed: Aaron Mc IVke, Cass Blackburn. S. I). Ely, A. I Bumgard, C. E. Coons, Ed Waters, five dwellings belonging to the C. 1. Cobb estate, B. L. Bleshears and G. B. Moore. All the churches except the Baptist are damaged or destroyed. The electric light plant was leveled to the ground and the Pland block was entire' unroofed. The storm was about 100 to 30 yards in width and lasted about thirty minutes. Between Trnxton and High Hill the tornado passed, killing a woman and four children, whose names are not known. ST. LOUIS NEEDS NO AID. Eaat St. Looii, However, la Appealing for Assistance. Chicago, June I. The following messages were received here by the general manager of the Associated Press: St. Louis, May 29. St. Louis does not need assistance. East St. Louis is appealing for aid. The proportion of destruction to pop ulation there is something awful. C W. Knapp, Editor Republic, St. Louis, May 29. St. Louis is profoundly thankful for sympathy and proffered aid, but is amply able to care for her sufferers. East St. Louis, however, is worse hurt than we are, and help is needed badly there. A. Lawson, Editor Post-Dispatch. In St. Louis County. St. Lons, Mo., June 1. In St. Louis county, Wednesday's tornado left a continuous trail of destruction and desolation The storm apparently rose out of the Mississippi river near ! St Charles. It passed oer Florrisant j and Bridgeton and, sweeping down on I West End park, completely destroyed j that little village. J In pursuing its southerly course, j with a velocity of more than seventy j five miles an hour, it passed through the towns of Stratmann. Central, j Clayton, Brentwood, Bartold. Maple i wood and Shrewsbury park. Hundreds of houses, barns and out- buildings were blown away. Forest i trees a century old were uprooted. However, but one person, a babe, was ; killed, and no more than a dozen ! badly injured. Eleven Boats Destroyed. i East St. Lons. 111.. June 1 The I boatmen yesterda3r began the arduous j task of recovering their wrecked and i disabled craft, at least such portions of it as appeared to be worth saving, i Eleven boats and tugs are badly de ; molished and sunk, most of them be i ing thought to be beyond repair. j City Loss. S600.000- Sr. Lons. Mo., June 1. Comptroller Sturgeon thinks the city treasury will be heavily taxed as a result of Wednesday's storm. He says it will i take nearly SMMJ.OOO to repair the damage done to city buildings. Latlierjn Pastors Expelled. MiDin.ETox, Ohio. J une 1. A sensa tion was created in the synod of the Western district of the Evangelical Lutheran church, by the announce ment that two ministers, delegates to the synod, had been fined for being drunk and disorderly. They were immediately expalled from the synod. Thev are Rev. Andrew Popp, Stanton, Ind., and Rev. O. T. Koblitz, Hope ville. Mercer county, Ohio. A Se-Back, for England. London. June 1. A Cairo dispatch to the Times says: The decision of the mixed tribunal is an open secret, although it will not be delivered until Monday. It will support the French contention, and thus virtually decide that the Egyptian government cannot make war against the Khalifa, or even resist a Soudanese invasion, without the consent of each member of the debt commission. Rebellion la BraxlL Rio Janeiro, June J. Disorders have occurred in the province of Minas Gereas. The commandant of the po lice there has been killed and troops have teen sent to quell the disturbance. THE PRESIDENT VETOES TRP RIV ERS AND HARBORS BILL. TOO MUCH PATERNALISM The Meanre Held to C ontain Many Pro Visions Which Would Oreatly Inereaa I'rMrnt Hurdena Deplores the Tendency toalue Ihe io ra mot for Hie Favors It Can HestOOT. Wahixotox May 2ft. As ha bee confidently expected, the president sent to the house to-day a vigorous message vetoing the rivers unl har bors appropriation bill. The full text of the message is as follows. "There are 417 items of appropria tion contained in this bill, and every part of the country Is represented in the distribution of its favors. It directly appropriates or provides for the immediate expenditure of nearly $:i. 000,000 for river and harbor work. This sum is in addition to appropria tions contained in another bill for similar purposes, amounting to a little more than $3,000,000, which has already been favorably considered at the present session of Congress. The result is that the contemplated imme diate expenditures for the objects mentioned amount to about $17, 0o(),0i0. "A more startling feature of this bill is its authorization of contract for river and harbor work amounting to more than $02,000,000. Though the payment of these contracts are, in most cases, so distributed that they are to be met by future appropria tions, more than $3,000,000 on their account is" included in the direct ap propriations above mentioned. MANY MILLIONS INVOLVKI). "Of the remainder.nearly $,0,000,000 will fall due during the liscal year ending June 30, 18'.'8, and amounts somewhat less in the years immedi ately succeeding. A few contracts of a like character,authorized under pre vious statutes, are still outstanding, and tc meet payments on these more than $,000,000 must be appropriated in the immediate future. If, there fore, this bill becomes a law, the obli gations which will be imposed on the government, together with the appro priations made for immediate expend iture on account of rivers and har bors, will amount to about $s0,000, 000. 'Nor is this all. The bill directs numerous survey s and examinations, which contemplate new work and further contracts, and which portend largely increased expenditures and obligations. There is no ground to hope that in the face of persistent and gTowing demands the aggregate cf appropriations for the smaller schemes not covered by contracts will be re duced or even remain stationary. For the fiscal year ending June 30, lS'Js, such appropriations, together with the installments ou contracts which will be due in that year, can hardly be less than $30,000,000. and it may reasonably be apprehended that the prevalent tendency towards increased expenditures of this sort and the con cealment which postponed payments afford for extravagance will increase the burdens chargeable to this account in succeeding years. THE PKESIUENT'S DUTY. 'In view of the obligation imposed upon me by the constitution it seems to me quite clear that I only dis charge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legis lation proposed. 1 learn from official sources that there are appropriations contained in the bill to pay for work which private parties have actually agreed with the government to do in consideration of their occupancy of public property. I am convinced that the bill now under consideration will open the way to insidious and increas ing abuses, and is itself so extravaerant as to be especially unsuited to tiiese times of depressed business and result ing disappointment in government revenue. "This consideration is emphasized by the prospect that the public treas ury will be confronted with other ap propriations made at the present ses sion of Congress amounting to more than $500,0i0,00G. Individual econ omy and careful expenditures are sterling virtues which lead to thrift and comfort. Economy and the ex action of clear justification for the ap propriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are not only virtues, but solemn obligations. "To the extent that the appropria tions contained in this bill are insti gated by private interests and to promote local or individual projects their continuance cannot fail to stim ulate an injurious paternalism and encourage a sentiment among our people, already too prevalent, that their attachment to our government may properly rest upon the hope and expectation of direct and personal favors, and that the extent to wnich they are realized may furnish an es timate of the value of governmental care. I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the un happy decadence among our people of genuine and trustworthy love and affection for our government as the embodiment of the highest and best asDirations of humanity and not as the giver of gifts, and because its mis sion is the enforcement of exact jus tice and equality and not the allow ance of unfair favoritism. "I hone I may be permitted to sug gest at a time when the issue of gov ernment bonds to maintain the credit and financial standing of the country is a subject of criticism, that the con tracts provided for in this bill would create obligations of the United States amounting to $02, 000,000, no less bind ing than its bonds for that sum. "Grover Cleveland." Kansas City's Appropriation Denied Washington, May r9. The House refused to accept the Senate amend" ment to the sundry civil bill appropri ating $116,000 for the Kansas City government building and the item was returned to conference Itassla In I'rarerful AHiDkI-. LoyKON, May VI. Sir Edwin AritoM In Ilia dinpatch to the Llilu lii.lv Telegraph in regard to the cm .ii: i of the czar, ay: " The edili -o iWU (the Cathedral ofthe Ammiii ion) i minute, but its inner glorien ti I sanctuaries are fturh that you feel at if you were stumling at the heiiri of oiue jeweled cavern of drrumlumi. To feel, however, an the devout Itn sian feels in this astonishing pl.i . you must know some t hing of tlie overwhelming abociatiou clustering around it. "The most impressive moment wu when all, including the metropolitan, were prostrate on their knees iu prayer for the protection ami guid ance of the czar. He alone remained standing a lonely figure in the thronged cathedral a lonely liure in his empire. For ut this ii. .-n-e momeut all the empire is praet n al ly on its knees for him before the throne of heaven. One can hardly hear to look upon his fare at this prudigloat instant, when a hundred million hearts concentrate their thoughts and supplications upon that single lifud. Imperial lofty, conlidenl, perliaiii hit is; but how isolated, how solii.ary, how alone! "iMow commences the striking feat ure of the ceremony, whieh tills f lit! mind with iuexmesniMc 'tii:iOiy and almost with compassion melting of loyalty lute the family passion characteristic of I ho S,.tv. With an exquisite softness of voire and gesture, the emperor calls to him his empress. A passing t remor seems to shake the fair form which nmwi in obedience to the Munitions, hut, with a'l dignity and grace, she falls upon her knees before her august lorl a sight as touching as it is majestic, her long hair loose upon her white neck, her splendid garments trailing in a sheeny glory; her ungloved hands meekly clasped every inch a queen, though not yet crowned.1 Dr. Dillon of the Daily Telegraph describes the lightingof the Kremlin as follows: "At I o'clock in the even ing the emperor a ppea red on the !al cony of the palace, wreat lied in smiles, his figure adorned in :nedals ind ribbons. Hendvaneed witu a. grace ful bow ami offered to the ezarina. a curious bouquet. Directly the iv.ar ina's hand touched the nosegay, every flower and bud took lire and at the same moment the whole of tin; Krem lin burst into 11 a me. The thunder of 10,000 voices ren I the skys, followed by snatches of song and shriek of delight as the various figures in tire came into sight, mingled with howls of pain as some unfortunate person was crushed and disabled by the care less crowd." TAXES REDUCED. The Manifesto of the l iur Is a Wel come Message to the Kin pi re. Moscow, May 'iH. The czar's mani festo, issued upon the occasion of his coronation, remits all arrears of taxa tion in European, Russia and I'ol and, re duces the land tax by one-half for ten years, and remits or reduces al' tines, quashes all petty convictions involv ing imprisonment or tines up to VH) roubles, with the exception of per sons sentenced for robbery,' embezzle ment, usury, extortion, fraudulent bankruptcy or offenses against honor. Further, the manifesto prescribes ill exiles in Siberia after twelve years1 exile in the remoter parts, be, after ten years, allowed to choose their place of residence, except in capital cities and governments. but their livil rights will not be restored. Ex iled criminals have a third of their sentences remitted, life sen tences are commuted to twenty years, and many other punishments are lightened. A HI Deed of Trust. Nevada, Mo.,. May .h. A volumin ous deed of trust, covering seventy one pages of printed matter, has been filed for record in the Vernon county recorder's office here. It covers $800,000 worth of property at this place. Rich Hill, Pittsburg, Kan., Weir City, Kan., and other points, and is given by the Cherokee Lanyon Spelter Company to the State Trust Company of St. Louis for $300,000 worth of gold bonds. The Antl-Ulvorce Hill Signed. Washington, May 28. The Presi dent has signed the bill which neces sitates a residence of a year in a given jurisdiction prior to the institution of divorce proceedings. The new law cannot interfere with cases now pend ing. LITE STOCK AND 1'ROUIXK HAKKKTI Qootatlona From Vork, C'hleio, Lonls, Omaha and I New here. OMAHA. Butter Creamery et-parator. Butter Fair to good country Kkk Fresh 1'onltry Live hen.per B Pprinr Chickens Lrmona Choice Mcasinas.... Oranges Ptrbot Honey r ancy wmie, per id HU is a 6'.,k0 15 " 50 1 1 0 I it 3 Ui US. 1 a 4 w '$ c6 3 kU 4 kr 3 64 3 t:il & 3 Apples l'er bhl 4 0 1'otatoes Native Mock 'Hi Beans Navv. hand-nlcked.hu 1 40 Hay L'pland, per ton 5 50 lloifs Allxed packing 2 J lioRs Heavy Weights 3 0) Beeves Native Beef Pteera.. 2 Beef Steers 2.1 Bulls 2 Milkers and springers 20 ou Mkm 2 H Calves. 4 00 OA S Oxen IS" Cows 1 W 3 Heifer 2 55 kfi 3 Weaterns 3 41 4 3 cheep Muttons , W 3 CHICAGO. Wheat No. 2. spring 5 a Corn Per bu - 2f'4 Oata Per bu WW Pork 7 Lard 4 10 & 4 Cattle Choice Steers " 45 4 Hoes Averages. 3 1 3 rbeep Lambs IU & i cheep Westerns 2 SO Q NEW YORK. Wheat No. 2, red winter. M ya orn No. 2, S4 Oata No. 2, 23 8 Pork . 8 00 d$ 9 Lard 4 6J 4 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 red. cash STa Corn Per Du rs n 16 Yl t u 7 IS "M ii v l;0 00 ) mi ' 2.1 00 4.S S 2.1 40 . 5 10 5 00 ! 10 4.5 30 00 67-i J4'4 i 50 V Oata Per bu 17 Hogs Mixed packing 2 90 k Cattle Native steers -. 3 Oo w cheep Natives 3 no 43, Lamb. 4 40 a KANSAS CITY. Wheat No. 2 bard M t Corn No. 2. tZ i Oata No. 2 Is Cattli ctockers and feeders.. 3(0 lift Hogs Mediums 3 IM H f heep Lamba 3 so ft cheep Mutton ICO 9 T5 55 TO 10 t i